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Made with a budget of about $3k, Take Out follows a day in the life of Ming Ding, a take-out delivery worker and Chinese immigrant who has til the end of the day to pay off his smuggling debt. Filmed on a Sony PD150 DV (a glorified camcorder), the palpable desperation of dreary New York cityscapes and hazy neon lights come to life with the film's lo-fi quality. Watch 'Take-Out' now via YouTube.

Adrover's continuous commentary on America from the runway speaks for itself in this 2012 show, view the full show via firstVIEW.

Printed on IBM computer paper, this poster was designed in protest of Nixon’s order to bomb Cambodia amid the Vietnam War. This reimagining of Goya’s infamous ‘Saturn Devouring His Son’ by Jay Belloli was one of many anti-war posters strewn across campus at UC Berkeley around 1970. Open to interpretation, Belloli urges the viewer to question American government at large and its interest in foreign conflict. Watch a 10 minute interview with Belloli on YouTube

The Decline of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris, 1981. Documenting the punk scene in 1980s Los Angeles, this film features live performances and interviews from the likes of Black Flag, Germs and the Circle Jerks. Watch the full documentary for free via Internet Archive.

Anselm Kiefer, Sulamith, 1983. Read the poem "Death Fugue" by Jewish poet Paul Celan, about the holocaust, that inspired this work from Kiefer, a German artist.

In Tokyo, a string of mysterious suicides and a website that seems to link all of them sets the scene for this Japanese horror masterpiece. Kurosawa challenges the viewer's perception of connection, death, and isolation in the age of the internet. Watch this existentialist cyber-horror classic via Internet Archive.

Interview with Doug Dulgarian of They Are Gutting A Body Of Water via the Pittsburgh City Paper on the alternative scene in Philadelphia, running a record label and turning his back on the crowd (2023).

Full PDF of The Anarchist Cookbook, for educational purposes only.